Case Incident: The Flynn Effect

1. Do you believe people are really getting smarter?

In my opinion, I believe people are getting smarter because of the intellectual ability. The Flynn

effect is the name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores

measured in many parts of the world. It is not easy to answer this question without having a deep

knowledge about it. In my opinion, people are really getting smarter as compare to their relations

or intellectual ability. It’s the capacity to do mental activities, such as thinking, reasoning, and

problem solving. There are many factors that can prove my ides, such as computers, robots,

skyscraper buildings, satellites and so on. To build or create such a kind of amazing things we

need smart people. I am not going to say that the people who lived in the past were not smart. I

am just going to say that as compare to past, nowadays people are getting smarter. Today we are

not just studying only one subject; we are studying multiple subjects and fields. There are many

new subjects come up by time passes. Today we have many opportunities for studying, because

new technologies can help us to study more efficiently. For instance, computer and internet

forces people to think more abstractly. Whatever we need we can find from internet within few

seconds.

2. Which of the factors explaining the Flynn Effect do you accept?

The Flynn Effect has given the most suitable factors in this case. He explained four different

factors, such as Education, Smaller Families, Test-talking savvy and Genes. Education has been

changed a lot since past years. Today students use the modern technologies for studying purpose.

Internet is one of the most useful things for studying. On the other hand, students take a lot of

tests during the semesters and they become a professional. They know how to take tests and how

to do well on them. It helps to new generation to do well with IQ test and so forth.

3. Are there any social advantages or disadvantages to the Flynn Effect?

As far as this case study concern, I find few social advantages and disadvantages of Flynn effect.

Those are depicting below:

Advantages: Improvements in abstract thinking and problem-solving are the root of all

innovation. Society can only benefit, it seems to me, from a population which can think and

reason. Children and young people are exposed to and experience so much more opportunity for

intellectual stimulation today than ever before and that will certainly pay off in better thinkers for

the future. Some of that stimulation (such as video games) has other negatives (such as

childhood obesity and inactivity), of course; however, in terms of increased IQs, society wins.

Disadvantages: IQ doesn't really measure IQ anymore; it's just about teaching how to answer

tests. It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to have a productive workforce either.